Gained weight

e2rdeela
e2rdeela Posts: 3 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
So far I've lost 4,4 kg in three weeks (I have a lot to lose). This morning I weighed myself and saw that I had gained 0,5 kg within a week. Don't get me wrong, if I just hadn't lost any weight I wouldn't have minded... but gaining 0,5 kg? Is that a normal thing in the beginning for the weight to fluctuate like this? Should I start weighing myself every day?

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  • e2rdeela
    e2rdeela Posts: 3 Member
    No one?
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    It is completely normal and to be expected at times.

    For your reading pleasure: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10084670/it-is-unlikely-that-you-will-lose-weight-consistently-i-e-weight-loss-is-not-linear/p1
  • Equus5374
    Equus5374 Posts: 462 Member
    Weight loss isn't linear. Read the sticky posts with this theme. Our bodies are always in a state of fluctuation. You may have eaten a higher sodium meal and there's water retention. DON'T weigh yourself every day. Step away from the scale. If anything, weigh every two weeks or monthly. Go by how your clothes feel. Weight fluctuations are normal no matter where you are in your weight loss journey. The biggest problem for newer folks is their lack of patience. This is going to take a long time, get used to it. Start fresh every morning and do the best you can, but don't rely on a number from a machine.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    Yes. My weight fluctuates every day. As long as the trend is downward, don't worry about the little jumps. Sodium, hormones, TOM...all kinds of things can cause little jumps that will burn right off again.

    I personally gain 4 pounds a couple days before TOM, and it comes right off again after. If I eat spaghetti, I know I will be up 2 pounds the next day because of the carbs and sodium.

    The best thing you can do is stay aware and start to recognize what certain foods, exercises, and TOM can do to you personally. Once you are aware, then you know and don't freak out when the scale spikes for a day or two.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    edited April 2016
    Weighing every day taught me that not only do I gain weight premenstrually, I also gain when I ovulate (and when I have an unusually high sodium meal or when I start lifting weights again after a break). I chart it in Excel and don't worry about normal fluctuations as long as the overall trend is down.

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  • bpaine0715
    bpaine0715 Posts: 14 Member
    edited April 2016
    I'm still new to the whole community thing and truely calorie counting instead of eyeballing it, so I can only share my personal experience. Past couple weeks had lost 6.5lbs also have quite a bit to lose. I weigh daily with the happy scale app (thank you person on community that I saw recommend it to someone) Saturday I weighed and was up a pound. I thought I messed up my recipe in the builder and ate to many calories. So yesterday I watched what I ate just in case calories were extremely off in recipe still had my tacos and everything though. Woke up this morning and that pound plus .4lbs was gone. Again just a personal experience I had recently.
    The roller coaster of weight loss :)
  • e2rdeela
    e2rdeela Posts: 3 Member
    Thank you all! :)

    I might start to weigh myself every day with the happy scale app for a while, at least until my paranoia has waned.

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